Freak Whirlwind Destroys Nottingham Poor Girls’ Home
In 1910 a freak whirlwind flattened the Nottingham Poor Girls’ Home in Brunswick Drive, Skegness, when the building of it was almost finished.
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It was rebuilt and served its original purpose for many years. Now it has been converted into an annexe for the infants’ school in Cavendish Road.
Photos: Henry Wilkinson
Source: Skegness Standard 28th January 1983
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Jolly Fisherman Winscale Postcard
Newspaper article review
The story below is valuable in our historical research as it illustrates how the use of the emblem of Skegness, the Jolly Fisherman, has been used in many advertising campaigns. Also about the history the Jolly Fisherman copyright.
1983
A picture postcard showing the Jolly Fisherman on a gray, contaminated beach with radio-active sludge dripping [...]
